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Week 9 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - let's get focused!

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BIWI · 17/07/2017 07:38

Morning campers

Here's the spreadsheet

So we start our last two weeks. Let's get really focused - think about the food you're eating, pinpoint any carb creep and eliminate that cheating!

If it helps, post what you're eating each day. Or even consider going back to strict Bootcamp for the last fortnight!

Flowers

Good luck to everyone

@ilovecherries - I feel your pain! And I hope very much that the hotel were able to make you a lovely, low carb fry up this morning

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Veryflummoxed · 22/07/2017 08:06

cherrypi re read the rules. Check for carb creep. Go to the recipe thread. Remember weight loss isn't consistent. It often comes in whooshes.

ClearEyesFullHearts · 22/07/2017 08:10

Out of curiosity cherrypi which new diet would you go to for that next stone weight loss that has more interesting and tasty food options than this one? Because I'd really like to know.

Or are you just saying you want to eat potatoes again. Hmm Wink

MOIST · 22/07/2017 08:32

I went to a wedding yesterday.

I might have eaten a few strawberries dipped in chocolate but the rest of the day was pretty impressively LCHF.

Apart from the vast quantities of alcohol I consumed Shock

I am a 3 glasses maximum girl. I don't do getting totally ratted and dancing until 1am with people I barely know. But yesterday I did.

I am very surprised I am not hungover at all but my legs and toes are feckin killing me.

OldBooks · 22/07/2017 08:36

Thanks for the birthday wishes, birthday girl has been up since 4.30 with teething pain Hmm better than her sister who had awful conjunctivitis for her first! Took DD1 swimming this morning which gave me the chance to wear my Curvy Kate bikini for the first time in ages - it's loose!!

And if I can wear a bikini at size 18 then so can all of you Wink

Week 9 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - let's get focused!
MOIST · 22/07/2017 08:38

Lovely OldBooks. Have a fab birthday day. Cake

BIWI · 22/07/2017 09:10

Great picture, @OldBooks! Enjoy the birthday Cake

@Grah0SoontobeaFatty - I had no idea you were a bloke either! Not that it makes any difference, although perhaps when others started posting about boobs/bikinis etc it might have been nice to have said sooner Grin

Re those coconut bars, I don't they're too bad - although I'd swap the stevia sweetened chocolate for high cocoa dark chocolate instead - if you used Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Belgian chocolate for cooking (from memory that's 76% cocoa), then it would work out at around 3g carbs per bar.

The whole recipe makes 6, and as long as you were only eating one at a time, overall it shouldn't be too bad.

@YoucantscaremeIhavechildren

I've been struggling with feeling light headed and dizzy a bit, I do get this sometimes anyway but it's happened a few times this week.

Electrolytes! How much salt are you using? Are you cooking with it/adding it to your food? Try getting hold of a magnesium supplement, and also look for sources of potassium - Lo-Salt is good. There is a low/zero carb electrolyte drink you can get hold of as well (can't remember what it's called) but see if you can find that.

And also you and @cherrypi, and anyone else who is claiming that you're bored - step back a bit. Think back to what you were eating before Bootcamp. If you genuinely think that that way of eating was more flexible, and more interesting, (whilst also giving you the chance of losing weight without being hungry all the time), then be my guest and go back to that WOE.

But IME and IMVHO this WOE is much more flexible and enjoyable - it's much easier to go out to eat (as long as you're not hanging out at pasta/pizza joints all the time!). If you're on a low fat or low calorie diet, practically everything you might choose at a restaurant will take you over whatever limit you've imposed on your day.

If this WOE isn't working for you from the point of view of weight loss, then look at what you've been eating and drinking honestly and make sure that you haven't allowed carb creep.

What are your portion sizes like? Whilst you can eat to satisfy yourself o a low carb diet, it isn't carte blanche to stuff your face! Perhaps it's time to consider cutting down?

If you can, hand on heart, say that you're following the rules, and you still aren't losing, then you could be one of the people for whom low carb just doesn't work.

But, when you say your weight is 'flatlining' what, exactly, do you mean? Have you seen no weight loss for more than 4 weeks? Or is it just that the rate of loss is slowing? Are your expectations unrealistic? If you're nearing your target, then weight loss will slow anyway. But you should be expecting a weekly loss of around 1-2lbs.

If you're just bored because you're not a very good or imaginative cook - sorry, I can't help you Grin - but go and read through the recipe thread for some inspiration any way.

Sorry for the mammoth post - this may be my only one this weekend. I finished work last night, was having a very enjoyable dinner with my colleagues who are also here with me, waiting for DH to arrive - only to hear that his flight was first seriously delayed and then cancelled. So once he gets here he won't be too pleased if I'm on MN all weekend!

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YoLoZammo · 22/07/2017 09:20

Oldbooks you look fab. You have a similar body shape to me. Though I think I'm much shorter. Go you for rocking that bikini.

YoLoZammo · 22/07/2017 09:25

Hope your DH gets home safely BIWI. And enjoy the weekend!

cherrypi there are so many recipes to try. Far more creative and interesting than bunging pasta or potatoes on a plate. And so many lc swaps for carby elements of common dishes. What's not to love?

MOIST · 22/07/2017 09:54

I have finally learnt how to explode a babybell.

10 weeks that has taken me [proud]

Giraffeski · 22/07/2017 09:57

Moist- I finally tried the Fathead pizza last night! Much easier and less faff than I expected- but a bit too salty so I won't be adding salt to the dough again next time I make it.

ragz134 · 22/07/2017 10:23

cleareyes strapless bra! No way is that my natural lift these days... I'm 5'10" so weight is fairly spread out. But I was 215lbs at my heaviest last year, I am 176lbs this week.
user the top is from Boohoo, I got a couple in different colours. They are great with shorts or jeans, not quite right with flowy trousers really. Cheap and soft, don't need ironing. Wish I had found them years ago!

So out last night and I had about 7 vodkas with soda water, biggest victory was no drunken eating! Usually when I've had a drink the willpower disappears, I'm wondering if it's because my drink wasn't sweet so it didn't make me think about food? Several pounds lighter this morning, which I assume was some kind of alcohol relates dehydration as it happened last time I drank.

Kleptronic · 22/07/2017 10:24

Hello people! Grah I knew you were a bloke, I think you intimated it early on.

Ragz you are gorgeous!

I have come back from holiday where I ate and ate and ate. I'm not recommending it, but reporting here in the spirit of thread solidarity - I also drank a huge amount. I ate low carb but my goodness, the quantities. So I had a full plate of fry up every day (sausage, bacon, scrambled egg, fried egg, kipper, tomato, creamy coffee), no lunch because of huge breakfast and then mahoosive dinner.

Dinner was buffet style so I had for example, roast beef with cauliflower cheese, a side order of coq au vin, mushrooms, creamy coleslaw and gravy.

Or pork chop with diced swede, cod in creamy sauce, olives, cheese and green beans.

So basically at least double or triple quadruple protein at each meal and I don't know the carb content of the sauces. I was full to bursting every day.

I drank wine, prosecco, pimms and vodka with diet coke/lemonade. Loads of it.

I've put on 2lb! Well earned that 2lb. I am astonished it's so low! I know if I had eaten the carbs too it would have been at least 6lb. At least.

So there you have it, BIWI is right, you can't eat everything lots on this WOE and not put on weight - but I had a week of sheer low carb gluttony/drunkenness and got away with 2lb.

Right back on it now though me. Strict Bootcamp for 2 weeks. Onwards!

C4pinkwheels · 22/07/2017 10:30

It's a day of naked burgers and maybe some fizz for me at the wet Splendour Festival today.
It's our wedding anniversary too.

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MOIST · 22/07/2017 10:38

Looking fab C4.

I am so tired and I'm off for a sleepover with my BFFs this afternoon. I doubt there will be much sleeping. I need to go shopping for meat and stuff. Urgh.

secretsignal · 22/07/2017 10:46

Old you look lovely, and have a very pretty smile.
Happy Anniversary C4!

secretsignal · 22/07/2017 10:50

Grah Shock**

ragz134 · 22/07/2017 10:52

moist sounds like you had a fun night out too! Think of all the calories you burned dancing.
oldbooks well done on the bikini photo, you have great legs, my DH would say they have a good taper...
c4 I love your funky outfit and shoes. You have lovely arms and shoulders.

Thank you to everyone for the lovely compliments. I don't feel entirely deserving as I took a lot of photos to get a few that flattering! But DH said this morning I was the best looking lady there (he's biased as he gets to take me home!) So that was nice. We do still fancy each other after nearly 12 years :)

ilovecherries · 22/07/2017 10:53

ragz, that's inspirational. That's exactly my start point, and while I need to go a bit lighter than you because I'm a couple of inches shorter, it makes me feel so much better to see what an end result could look like. At the moment, I can't even begin to imagine it, I can't make a picture of a non-fat me at all. How long has it taken you, and have you done LCHF all the way?

ragz134 · 22/07/2017 10:54

kleptronic holiday sounds great, 2lb is a very small price to pay for enjoying yourself so much!

Cherrypi · 22/07/2017 10:56

I was thinking going back on the blood sugar diet. Very similar but your allowed porridge.

ragz134 · 22/07/2017 11:02

cherries I started LCHF at 211lbs on Kan 1st, I did a few weeks of the blood sugar diet (800 cals a day LC) and lost a stone in the first month. Then just LCHF, have had a few days off and carby twat attacks in that time, but have slowly and steadily lost with a few stalls. Have never stuck to any WOE this long in my life and really feel like I have cracked it. I'd like to lose another stone and a half and get my waist measurement under the half my height ratio, actual waist already is but my tummy is a lot bigger and it's that I want to shrink. Have attached my very unflattering photos and the graph of last 6 months.

Week 9 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - let's get focused!
Week 9 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - let's get focused!
Fortunatepiggy · 22/07/2017 11:02

Can someone update the spreadsheet for me please as I updated it once a while ago and now can't work remember how I did it . I am 10 stone 3! 1 stone 3 pounds loss so far .. so happy. Even felt good in bikini on holiday last week!

This thread has helped so much to keep me on track!

Fortunatepiggy · 22/07/2017 11:03

Ragz you look great well d

Fortunatepiggy · 22/07/2017 11:03

Well done!

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